Call me crazy, but I don't find that amazing in the slightest. What's more amazing is that we have such a level of consciousness that we can even contemplate the significance our own existence. That has yet to be definitively explained, and yet it is such an immediate and pervasive experience.

"A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly with the chain of their own ideas" - Michel Foucault

At 4/28/2013 1:42:24 PM, 000ike wrote:Call me crazy, but I don't find that amazing in the slightest. What's more amazing is that we have such a level of consciousness that we can even contemplate the significance our own existence. That has yet to be definitively explained, and yet it is such an immediate and pervasive experience.

At 4/28/2013 1:42:24 PM, 000ike wrote:Call me crazy, but I don't find that amazing in the slightest. What's more amazing is that we have such a level of consciousness that we can even contemplate the significance our own existence. That has yet to be definitively explained, and yet it is such an immediate and pervasive experience.

But I agree, consciousness is probably more mind blowing to contemplate.